Quote#Time
One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of…
Quote byIsaac Newton · 1643–1727
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Board of Longitude, Written in remarks to the 1714 Longitude committee; quoted in Longitude (1995) by Dava Sobel, p. 52 (i998 edition) ).
English (original)
One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made.
— Isaac Newton
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